music magazine

Welcome to my blog.
This blog will follow the production of my music magazine.
it will include all the research i have done leading up to it, the preperation and then the finished magazine.







RESEARCH.


to make decisions about the magazine, we created a questionnaire.
here is a copy of my questionnaire:


Music magazine questionnaire.


My name is Linzie and I produced this questionnaire in order to help me produce a music magazine. All information will be confidential.



1. Age … (please circle one) 10-15… 16-25… 26+

2. Gender: male/female

3. Favourite genre of music …………………

4. Which is most important to for the front cover when choosing a magazine? Images/ informative text/ other

5. Is there anything you would like to see included in a music magazine that at the moment isn’t? ………………………………………………

6. Would you like a mixed genre music magazine? Yes/no

7. If you answered no to the above what genres would you like to see?

Dance Indie Rock Pop Drum and bass


8. What do you think of from the name ‘PureNoise’?
…………………………………………………………………...
……………………………………………………………………

9. If you answered no to the above do you have any suggestions? ……………………………………………………………………

10. Inside would you prefer: more images/ more text/ equal



Thank you for completing my questionnaire.




we then had to analyse the results;



Questionnaire analysis



From the results of my questionnaires I found that ‘Noise’ was the preferred name for my magazine. It’s important to know if your audience will like the name of the magazine as the name needs to be recognised and so needs to be strong.

When asked whether they wanted more text, more images or equal amounts of text and images, the overall feedback was that they wanted more images; this will help when constructing my article as now I know I need to feature more images. Also, I asked what was the most important thing when choosing a magazine; I found that most people chose a magazine from the image on the front, this means that when designing my front cover I need to have a strong image and not focus too much on the text.

My magazine is going to be multi genre, to make sure this was what the audience wanted I asked them; all feedback was that multi genre was the best option, as a result of this the tagline for my magazine is going to be 'a bit of everything...' this clearly indicates that the magazine has bits of everything and so potential readers will know before reading what genre of magazine it is.

My target audience will be 16- 25; this means I need to chose articles, images and stories to suit this age range. i need to keep in mind that this is a young age range and so it needs to be suitable for young readers.